The Pre-School Language Scale-5 (PLS-5) is a developmental norm-referenced assessment tool for a variety of functional and educational uses, including child assessment, evaluation, student academic placement, Individual Educational Plans (IEP’s), Individual Family Service Plans (IFSP’s), instructional planning, and to determine eligibility for early intervention and pre-school programs. Our on-line course will assist you and help ‘fast-track’ your learning curve, so that you will more easily learn about this valuable instrument and how best to apply it to the children under your care.Similar to a Monarch or Cliff notes-type review, our online course and certification provides the essential information in a condensed and more easily digestible format. This course is a review and training module for the Pre-School Language Scale-5. It meets annual State Early Intervention requirements for continuing education hours in assessment and evaluation.

Differing from the older PLS-4 exam, the new PLS-5 includes new test items with growth scale values that ascend to 7;11; additional the articulation screener has been updated. The PLS-5, administered over the course of 25-50 minutes, makes it easy for educators to assess expressive and receptive language delays of infants, toddlers, and children up to 6 years of age. In addition, the PLS-4 helps:

Diagnose delays, disabilities, giftedness and other exceptionalities

Determine present level of performance

Write IFSP’s & IEP’s and monitor progress

Yield standard scores, percentile ranks, language age equivalents

Support alternate assessment needs

Prior to ordering this course, be sure to have a complete copy of the testing instrument, with all testing materials.

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Approved as a Core of Knowledge Training by the EXCELS Early Childhood Development: Maryland State Department of Education

APPROVED BY THE ILLINOIS EARLY INTERVENTION TRAINING PROGRAM FOR EARLY INTERVENTION CREDENTIAL CREDIT for 3.0 Hours

This course meets the IndianaState requirements for the annual credentialing process in the area of “Conferences & Workshops”

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1. Identify receptive and expressive language deficits for both the clinical and educational settings so as to set future goals and outcomes for the child in the early intervention and pre-school setting.

2. Identify receptive and expressive language dysfunction &/or delay so as to determine short and long term goals for both individual family service plans (IFSP’s) in the early intervention setting, and individual educational plans within the pre-school setting.

3. Learn to identify and diagnose delays, disabilities, or other exceptionalities in both expressive and receptive communication

4. Identify current level of performance in the dual communicative domain of receptive and expressive language

7. Utilize this developmental norm-referenced assessment instrument to identify indices that can assist in recommended academic placement, instructional planning, and both initial and ongoing eligibility

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